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Re:Hole in Linux kernel provides root rights by X-Istence on Sunday September 19, 2010 @10:06PM (#1707481)
On any system with sane defaults for limits this won't crash the machine merely bog it down a tad.

I've successfully ran it on FreeBSD machines without any issues, now on Linux or Mac OS X it is bad news :P

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Re:Hole in Linux kernel provides root rights by 1amzave on Monday September 20, 2010 @03:16AM (#1708096)
Hm? Though on Linux I'm sure it varies from distro to distro, my Fedora 10 box has ulimit -u at 1024, and my OSX 10.6 install has it at 266 (2^8 + 10? Wonder how they decided on that number).

(And yes, I tried forkbombing them for the hell of it, both systems took it entirely in stride, as would be expected.)

Does anyone know of any current distros that don't set a sensible process limit in the default install?

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Re:Hole in Linux kernel provides root rights by avar on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:15AM (#1708866)
On both Debian and Ubuntu `ulimit -u` returns `unlimited` for me.
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